A while ago Michael Hyatt posted about 20 Leadership Questions that he had been asked. He also challenged other leaders to ask these questions of themselves and blog about them. I intend to do this (over time) and at the same time I challenge you to ask these questions of yourself. Can you name a [...]

Great post on Lifehacker by John Cook about Parkinson’s Law – A book that he picked up for $1 that opens with the oft quoted line Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion From a church leadership point of view there’s an even more interesting law quoted. The Law of [...]

I suspect in response to my post “Where are Our Great Leaders” Michael Osterman tweeted the following which should, in my opinion, be recorded for posterity! As for current great leaders in politics, we could tweet the entire list and still use nowhere near 140 characters! I love it.  

Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership Author: Tim Irwin Publisher: NelsonFree I was genuinely excited when I saw “Derailed” on the list of books I could get from BookSneeze to read, review and blog about.  Unfortunately it’s a book that produces high expectations but ultimately fails to deliver. The concept of this [...]

Yesterday I had to do something I really loathe.  Stand on the street and collect for The Salvation Army. It’s not The Salvation Army I loathe. If I did I wouldn’t have committed to spend my life working for God through the army (I’m an ordained minister – Officer at The Salvation Army Johnsonville.) It’s [...]

Whether you are employing a paid staff member or appointing a volunteer the choice of “who” is one of the most impactful decisions you’ll make today. Why? Because a bad call causes: a lot of angst and heartache, not only for you but also for that person and the team into which they’re being appointed; [...]

If you’re in ministry you’ll know it can really dominate your life. How do you go about making sure it doesn’t?  

I came back from honeymoon to a new job (OK, I admit it, this is a story from many… too vague?… 28 years ago but trust me, it’s still relevant) and a new boss.  Not just a new boss, but as the company who hired me had been merged with (taken over by) another company, [...]

Do you think of yourself as a leader: Who includes? Who invites? Who shares leadership? I was given a short sharp kick in the pants the other day when I read David Collinson’s post “Open Sourced Activists”. He says They are hungry for more. They want a voice. They want influence. They are a generation [...]